Can’t Beet this Chicken Salad

I’m weird about chicken. It was hard for me to start cooking it, and when I did, it was already bought for me. Later I learned how to buy it, in a plastic-wrapped tray at the supermarket. I could buy chicken breasts, chicken legs, chicken thighs. It was clean and easy. But now my supermarket has transformed into an actual market, in Tel Aviv. And it turns out, those little clean trays of four chicken legs come from two entire chickens that were born with a neck, and a heart, and wings, and a liver, etc. AND that you can buy all of that. And EAT it. I try to block my view and go straight for the cleanest-normalest parts. But I now know and appreciate the work of the butchers and the blindness supermarkets provide. This salad was a hit. Perfect lunch for a sunny day. It was supposed to last throughout the week but we (Aslan mostly) finished it in a (chicken) heartbeat. It’s inspired by LA’s Sqirl chicken salad version, but koshered.

Beet Chicken Salad

1 beet

Sea salt

1 chicken breast-boiled and shredded

1/2 avocado

4 Tbsp fresh fennel

3/4 C cooked black lentils

1 tsp salt

4 Tbsp lemon juice

1/2 tsp harissa + 1/4 tsp cinnamon, or 1 tsp ras el hanout

1/4 C walnut or olive oil

Preheat oven to 400ºC. Make a bed of sea salt in a small oven-proof dish and place the clean unpeeled beet on top. Take it to the oven and roast until a fork can easily pierce it. Let it cool, peel it, and grate it. Mix the grated beet, shredded chicken, and lentils. Make the dressing by whisking the lemon juice, salt, and spices, then slowly adding the oil. Dice half of the avocado and mix it in with the salad, then mix in the dressing. To serve with bread, toast some slices, spread avocado on top and then the salad.

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